The Ming Storm

The Ming dynasty becomes a battleground for the Brotherhood of Assassins and the Order of the Templars in this blockbuster action novel from a previously unexplored part of the beloved Assassin’s Creed universe. China, 16th century. The Assassins are gone. Zhang Yong, the relentless leader of the Eight Tigers, took advantage of the emperor's death to eliminate all his opponents, and now the Templars hold all the power. Shao Jun, the last representative of her clan, barely escapes death and has no choice but to flee her homeland. Vowing to avenge her former brothers in arms, she travels to Europe to train with the legendary Ezio Auditore. When she returns to the Middle Kingdom, her saber and her determination alone will not be enough to eliminate Zhang Yong: she will have to surround herself with allies and walk in the shadows to defeat the Eight Tigers.

The Ming dynasty becomes a battleground for the Brotherhood of Assassins and the Order of the Templars in this blockbuster action novel from a previously unexplored part of the beloved Assassin’s Creed universe. China, 16th century. The Assassins are gone. Zhang Yong, the relentless leader of the Eight Tigers, took advantage of the emperor's death to eliminate all his opponents, and now the Templars hold all the power. Shao Jun, the last representative of her clan, barely escapes death and has no choice but to flee her homeland. Vowing to avenge her former brothers in arms, she travels to Europe to train with the legendary Ezio Auditore. When she returns to the Middle Kingdom, her saber and her determination alone will not be enough to eliminate Zhang Yong: she will have to surround herself with allies and walk in the shadows to defeat the Eight Tigers.

La dinastia Ming diventa il nuovo campo di battaglia per la Confraternita degli Assassini e l'Ordine dei Templari del mondo di Assassin's Creed©. CINA, XVI SECOLO D.C. – Gli Assassini se ne sono andati. Zhang Yong, lo spietato capo delle Otto Tigri, ha approfittato della morte dell'imperatore per eliminare tutti gli oppositori e ora sono i Templari a detenere il potere. Shao Jun, ultima rappresentante del proprio clan, sfugge alla morte per un soffio e non ha altra scelta che scappare, abbandonando la sua patria. Dopo aver giurato di vendicare i compagni d'armi caduti, si reca in Europa per allenarsi con il leggendario Ezio Auditore. Quando tornerà nell'Impero di Mezzo, la sua sciabola e la sua determinazione da sole non basteranno a eliminare Zhang Yong: dovrà circondarsi di alleati e camminare nell'ombra per poter sconfiggere le Otto Tigri.

Assassin's Creed : la licence incontournable d'action-aventure et d'infiltration adaptée en roman ! Chine, XVIe siècle. Les Assassins ne sont plus. La Confrérie de la Plaine centrale a été renversée et tous ses membres ont été massacrés. Zhang Yong, l'implacable chef des Huit Tigres, a profité de la mort de l'empereur pour faire éliminer tous ses adversaires, asseyant ainsi le pouvoir des Templiers dans le sang. Shao Jun, dernière représentante de son clan, réchappe de justesse à la mort et n'a d'autre choix que de fuir sa patrie. Jurant de venger ses anciens frères d'armes, elle rejoint alors l'Europe afin de se former auprès du légendaire Ezio Auditore. De retour dans l'empire du Milieu, elle va vite comprendre que son sabre et sa détermination seuls ne suffiront pas à éliminer Zhang Yong : il lui faudra s'entourer d'alliés et manœuvrer dans l'ombre pour frapper les Huit Tigres en plein cœur... La dynastie Ming s'apprête alors à devenir le théâtre d'une gigantesque partie d'échecs entre la Confrérie des Assassins et l'Ordre des Templiers.

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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION FINALIST FOR THE 2021 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FOR LESBIAN FICTION NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE Three generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland in this blazing debut of one family's queer desires, violent impulses, and buried secrets. One evening, Mother tells Daughter a story about a tiger spirit who lived in a woman's body. She was called Hu Gu Po, and she hungered to eat children, especially their toes. Soon afterwards, Daughter awakes with a tiger tail. And more mysterious events follow: holes in the backyard spit up letters penned by her grandmother; a visiting aunt arrives with snakes in her belly; a brother tests the possibility of flight. All the while, Daughter is falling for Ben, a neighbourhood girl with strange powers of her own. As the two young lovers translate the grandmother's letters, Daughter begins to understand that each woman in her family embodies a myth--and that she will have to bring her family's secrets to light in order to change their destiny. With a poetic voice of crackling electricity, K-Ming Chang is an explosive young writer who combines the wit and fabulism of Helen Oyeyemi with the subversive storytelling of Maxine Hong Kingston. Tracing one family's history from Taiwan to America, from Arkansas to California, Bestiary is a novel of migration, queer lineages, and girlhood.

This engaging, deeply informed book provides the first concise history of one of China's most important eras. Leading scholar John W. Dardess offers a thematically organized political, social, and economic exploration of China from 1368 to 1644. He examines how the Ming dynasty was able to endure for 276 years, illuminating Ming foreign relations and border control, the lives and careers of its sixteen emperors, its system of governance and the kinds of people who served it, its great class of literati, and finally the mass outlawry that, in unhappy conjunction with the Manchu invasions from outside, ended the once-mighty dynasty in the mid-seventeenth century. The Ming witnessed the beginning of China's contact with the West, and its story will fascinate all readers interested in global as well as Asian history.